AR-15

You can’t swing a dead cat around the survivalist internet sites without running into thousands, no, hundreds of thousands of gun-related articles. Most deal with variations on a theme: 9mm vs. 45 ACP or AR-15 vs. AK-47. Not quite so common but still prevalent are articles that focus on training skills to acquire. However, I…
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What is the big deal about an 80% lower receiver? Why would I want to build one when I can just go out and buy one that is already machined and ready to go? There are a number of reasons why someone might want to build their own firearm from an unserialized receiver. Probably one…
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If you own and use an AR rifle platform as a primary SHTF weapon, then you need an AR magazine strategy. Have you ever seen so many options for ways to feed a rifle than with the vast varieties of AR magazine configurations? You might think you were being made even more confused than just…
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Almost overnight Katrina turned from a woman’s elegant name, to a tragic hurricane, to an adjective for a tangible survival situation. So when the word Katrina is used to qualify a rifle, it should be clear that the intended use of the rifle will not be for anything fun. This particular Katrina Rifle (KR) project…
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There are two groups of people reading this: those that think you'll need an AR-15 or two and those that think one is totally unnecessary. Let's explore some scenarios. Maybe some thinking along different lines will help you to make your own decision. Scenario One Let's first operate under the idea that things have…
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Whether you like it or not, you have to admit that the AR-15 is the rifle of choice for the majority of preppers nationwide. It's adaptable, it's easy to handle, easy to shoot well, and the sheer numbers of them out there mean that any prepper undermost circumstances should probably have one in his arsenal…
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What if I told you that there was a dot sight that existed and worked extremely well for 100 years before the first Aimpoint ever clicked on? True story. It was (and still is) a fast, easy-to-pick-up zero-magnification sighting system that served to annihilate herds of buffalo hundreds of yards from the shooter…
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A while ago, one of our readers wrote in and asked for advice for a good SHTF shotgun. I helped him out with the knowledge I had, and I guess it was OK, because he wrote back on a slightly different topic. He asked, Dear SHTFblog, You guys gave me great shotgun advice reciently. I'm…
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I don't know if you've been following what's been going down in Connecticut since Jan. 1, but what happens there could very well set a precedent for gun owners across the country. Call it ignorance, call it civil disobedience, or explain it away by saying, "they must not have known", but however you put it…
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Yeah, they're ugly. Yeah, they're generally old. Yeah, they're sometimes pretty beat up. But the fact is that the military surplus and law-enforcement trade-in market is a great place to source badass SHTF guns. (Relatively) cheap, reliable, and useful, military and LE guns are available in huge quantity, and they're not super-sexy to most people…
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Happy Wednesday, everybody! In last week's post, I'd hoped to get a few five-gallon bucket build ideas, but we've only had a couple submissions...so I'm going to stretch that out another week in the hopes we might get a couple more. On top of that, I've been bedridden sick with a nasty stomach virus…
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*Price includes a six-pack of a delicious frosty adult beverage. I'll admit; I've been an AR-15 fanboy for many, many years...even before the crazy modular tacti-cool rush of insanity made the AR-15 the hot-rodded Model A Ford of firearms. I've owned a few and shot many; and the one thing I can consistently say…
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EDIT: As I seem to have used the wrong designation for the red dot (TRW-25 vs. the actual, correct TRS-25), I boogered up a few things. Many thanks to Rooikat for picking up my boo-boo. The article has been edited to what is correct. A list of the Bushnell Trophy Red Dot scopes can be…
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